The historic Dunedin Prison was sold for $20,000, it has been revealed.The property, which has a capital value of $1.77 million, was sold to the Dunedin Prison Charitable Trust this week, after Ngai Tahu deferred its first right of refusal to buy the surplus Crown property.

While the trust and the iwi declined to release the sale price, Land Information New Zealand (Linz) Crown Property Management acting manager John Hook confirmed a sale price of $20,000, plus GST, if any...

Dunedin Prison is about to be given a new lease of life, Ngai Tahu, in a significant act of goodwill, has deferred their First Right of Refusal to facilitate a direct sale between the Crown and the Dunedin Prison Charitable Trust.

“We are extremely grateful to Ngai Tahu for their generosity and cooperation. The sale is the culmination of a year of discussions between both parties”, said Dunedin Prison Charitable Trust Chairman Stewart Harvey...

The viability of restoring and developing the former Dunedin Prison as a tourist attraction should be known by the end of the year.

About 60 people who attended a meeting last night in Dunedin to discuss the prison building's future were told the Dunedin Prison Charitable Trust, keen to restore the building, considered ventures in the complex had to be self-supporting...

The Department of Corrections has revealed it is selling the decommissioned 113-year-old Dunedin Prison, but is keeping quiet about to whom the building may be sold, or its future use.

Since it was decommissioned in 2007, there has been speculation about whether the building, which held about 59 medium-security prisoners and 40 remand prisoners, would be reopened for remand prisoners or sold....